Advisors

Vivek Krishnamurthy is Counsel at Foley Hoag LLP. He was formerly a Clinical Attorney and, previously, a Clinical Instructor in and Assistant Director of the Cyberlaw Clinic. He specializes in the international aspects of internet governance and on the human rights challenges associated with offering new internet-based services in different legal environments around the world. Vivek is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Yale Law School, and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Vivek clerked for the Hon. Morris J. Fish of the Supreme Court of Canada.

NANI JANSEN REVENTLOW | Advisor to the Cyberlaw Clinic | Nani Jansen Reventlow is an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where she was a 2016-2017 Fellow. She has been an advisor to Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic since 2016. Nani is a recognised international lawyer and expert in human rights litigation responsible for groundbreaking freedom of expression cases across several national and international jurisdictions. Between 2011 and 2016, Nani has overseen the litigation practice of the Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) globally, leading or advising on cases before the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and several African regional forums. Nani obtained the first freedom of expression judgment from the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Konaté v. Burkina Faso) and from the East African Court of Justice (Burundi Journalists Union v. Burundi). As a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, Nani developed the Catalysts for Collaboration website (https://catalystsforcollaboration.org), which offers a set of best practices and case studies encouraging activists to collaborate across disciplinary silos and use strategic litigation in digital rights campaigns. A Dutch-qualified attorney, Nani graduated in civil law and public international law from the University of Amsterdam and specialised in human rights at Columbia Law School and the European University Institute. She has developed and delivered training sessions on freedom of expression and human rights litigation to dozens of lawyers from several diverse jurisdictions, including India, Russia, Cambodia, Hungary, Botswana and Croatia. Nani is a member of the project board of the Public Interest Litigation Project and a strategic adviser to GQUAL, campaign for gender parity in international representation. She further serves on the advisory group of the Internet Policy Observatory and on the board of Ranking Digital Rights.

ERICA TENNYSON | Advisor to the Cyberlaw Clinic | Erica Tennyson is a principal of the Law Office of Erica Tennyson and serves as an Advisor to the Cyberlaw Clinic. Erica’s law practice focuses on emerging technology companies and their legal needs, including transactional, employment, and venture capital and other financing matters. She works with both for-profit and not-for-profit clients in industries such as green technology, the sharing economy, media and software development. In addition to her current work with startups, Erica has significant past experience representing national and multinational corporations in complex litigation.

WAIDE WARNER | Senior Advisor to the Cyberlaw Clinic | Waide Warner is senior counsel in the Corporate Department of the law firm, Davis Polk, a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and he serves as a Senior Advisor to the Cyberlaw Clinic. Waide works with the Clinic on matters related to digital inclusion, government use of technology and civic innovation. As a Davis Polk Partner for more than 25 years, he led the project finance practice, advising on a broad range of U.S. and international financings, restructurings, and joint ventures in the telecommunications, transportation, energy and mining sectors across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcome. Content is for informational purposes and is not legal advice. Use of the site is not an invitation to enter into and does not create an attorney-client relationship. Do not convey information you regard as confidential unless a formal attorney-client relationship is established. Information received prior to establishment of such relationship will not be confidential.